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Nominal Agreement in PIE from the Areal and Typological Point of View

Proto-Indo-European (PIE)nominal agreement is typologically unusual when compared to systems of nominal agreement in other language families of Eurasia. Gender agreement in PIE was virtually limited to NPs and closely associated with case and number agreement, and there is evidence showing that this system is of recent origin. It is argued that number of uninflected forms of adjectives and pronouns in early IE dialects, as well as certain types of relative clauses, may have been inherited from the period when these words classes did not agree with the head nouns within the NP.

Proto-Indo-European ; nominal agreement ; Linguistic typology ; Areal lingistics

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